The Fire and the Tale

by Giorgio Agamben

Book Overview

What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that the parable is the secret model of all narrative, every act of creation tenaciously resists creation, thereby giving each work its strength and grace...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503601641
• ISBN13: 9781503601642
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.5" x 6.9"